Behind the Scenes

 We have fun mixed in with lots of work.  Harvest season is very busy with more to do than we have time for.   In the off-season, it is a slower pace. Scroll down to see what we do...
Our Farm Store is open until Thanksgiving for you to come out and pick up your fresh sweet apple cider, apples, and winter squash for winter Feasts that you have planned... 

What we do in the winter and spring:

Attend winter Farmers' Markets on Saturdays for as long as we have something to sell...
Make cider weekly until our storage is empty..
Pack out apples for our wholesale and retail customers until our storage is empty...
Lots of pruning done of every tree beginning in  January...
Clean up and repair equipment!!
Learn more  by attending regional, national, and sometimes international fruit grower meetings.

Plan for the next season...
Order seeds, plants, boxes, bags, replacement parts, 

soil tests

lime applications

determine fertilizer requirments and order fertilizer
LOTS of paperwork including applications for Farmers Markets, regulatory compliance, planning for our Jamaican employees to come to work, updating the website, as farmers our our taxes are due March 1 ...

Planting new trees, bushes 

determinig if we need more equipment
We start our next growing season about two weeks before the first green leaves start showing on the first apple trees that wake up, usually in late March or early April!
All of this is almost like a vacation compared to harvest!!! It is all at our own pace until that first hint of green starts growing, then our schedules are dictated by our crops and the weather.